Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools high school students will be inducted into the National Technical Honor Society on April 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Slant Room of East Chapel Hill High School.

Students who will be inducted have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, as well as citizenship and leadership within career and technical education.

East Chapel Hill High School students will host an Avenue of Stars Fashion show on Friday at 7 p.m. in the East Chapel Hill High auditorium.

The students are in Beth Bell’s Apparel Development II and Fashion Merchandising course. The show will feature prom dresses designed and created by apparel development students, outfits from the PTA Thrift Shop coordinated by fashion merchandising students and fashions from Cameron’s and Cache.

The 15th annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Project Graduation needs volunteers and donations.

Project Graduation, an all-night, alcohol-and-drug-free party for graduates, will be held graduation night, June 14, at the UNC Student Union. The event is free of charge to participants to reward seniors for a job well done and to encourage maximum participation.

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The Chapel Hill High School Performing Arts Programs and PALS Information Night will be held April 30 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel Hill High Chorus Room, C Building.

Parents are invited to learn about Chapel Hill High’s performing arts programs as well as the performing arts volunteer organization, Performing Arts Lovers (PALs). PALs welcomes new volunteers and steering committee members for next year, particularly representatives for dance, band and orchestra.

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Phillips Middle School student Sidney Karesh recently won the junior story division of the Treasured Objects Contest sponsored by Weekly Reader.

Sidney’s story, “Here Lies My Struggle,” was published in the April/May edition of the magazine. She wrote about a journal that was given to her by her sixth-grade English teacher.

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Students at Ephesus Elementary School recently met their goal of reading 5,000 hours of books this year during their Rock and Read-a-thon.

Local rock band Hot Rooster played a short concert for the students on Friday to reward the students for reaching their goal.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro High School Job Fair will be held April 22 from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at East Chapel Hill High School.

The fair is organized by the Foundation for a Sustainable Community and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the three Chapel Hill-Carrboro high schools and is intended to help high school students find employment.

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The Karen refugees from Burma show off the friendships they’ve made in the gardening club at Frank Porter Graham Elementary, where many of the children are students. From left to right: Hsar Ree Ree Wei, 9; Iza Garayua-Tudryn, 7; Hla Win Tway, 10; Hsar Paw Paw Wei, 12; Mueh Pay, 10; and Kyew Shar Aye, 9. Photo by Morgan Siem.

By Morgan Siem
Carrboro Commons Writer

The stillness that characterizes most elementary schools on Saturday mornings is missing at Frank Porter Graham Elementary. Julie Spomer makes sure of that.

Saturday has become her favorite day of the week since the inception of the gardening club with the Karen refugees, she said.

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Carrboro’s co-recreational softball league is back and has played its first round of games. The standings so far:

Armadillo Grill 1-0
Chapel Hill Realty 1-0
Farrell’s Self-Storage 1-0
Milltown 1-0
Bread & Butter 0-1
Fearrington 0-1
The Lawn Wranglers 0-1
The Tooth House 0-1

Carrboro High School women’s soccer won two matches this week. On Friday they defeated Chatham Central High School 7-0. Scoring for the Lady Jaguars were Melody Cranfill, Molly Acuff with two, Peyton Kennedy, Marshall Babcock, Katie Gilmore, and Rosie Scanga, with assists by Rosie Scanga, Sarah Luca, Allison Rosen and Olivia Blanford. Carrboro took 29 shots and Chatham Central took 4. Carrboro had 2 saves, Chatham Central had 16.

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Twenty seventh graders from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools qualified for grand recognition in the Duke Talent Identification Program this year.

To qualify for grand recognition, students must exceed a score of 660 math or 650 verbal or exceed a total score of 1270 on the SAT.

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Hawbridge School, a charter high school in Saxapahaw, will hold an open house and concert on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

The four-year public high school offers enriched curricula in environmental studies and the arts for students in grades 9 through 12. Students from any school district in North Carolina may apply to attend the Hawbridge School.

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The Middle College High School at Durham Technical Community College will hold two open house events over the next week.

The Middle College program allows 11th- and 12th-grade students to earn honors-level high school credit while taking college courses. Students considering enrollment and their parents are encouraged to attend the events.

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By Susan Dickson
Staff Writer

The Farmers of Orange, one of the groups that petitioned the county to run the farmers’ market at the county’s new Public Market House, has launched a new farmers’ market in the parking lot of University Mall.

The new market, called the South Estes Farmers’ Market, is sponsored by A Southern Season and will be open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. year round. The market held a soft opening on Saturday and will hold a grand opening on May 3.

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The Morehead Planetarium will host a Skywatching Session April 12 from 8:30-10:30 p.m. at the Ebenezer Church Recreation Area at Jordan Lake. Attendees can view Saturn, Mars and a crescent moon. Free and open to all.

On April 21, the planetarium hosts “Our Vanishing Night,” a demonstration of how pollution affects the night sky. From 7:30-8:30 p.m. and free.